Latifa al-Droubi (Arabic: لطيفة الدروبي; born 1984) is the First Lady of Syria, having assumed the role on 29 January 2025 as the wife of Ahmed al-Sharaa, who was appointed as president in the transitional period following the fall of the Assad regime in the country.
[4] In Turkish media, it has been claimed that her grandfather, Aladdin al-Droubi, who served as the second prime minister of Syria from 26 July until his assassination on 21 August 1920, was also the personal doctor of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
[5] Her family includes well-known religious figures, such as Sheikh Abdul Ghaffar Al-Droubi who was a renowned Quran reciter from Syria who passed away in Jeddah in 2009.
In a meeting with a delegation of Syrian women residing in the United States, Ahmed al-Sharaa introduced her as his wife, dismissing social media rumors about having multiple spouses.
[11] Those reports were confirmed on 3 February 2025, as social media platforms circulated footage of her performing the Umrah pilgrimage in Mecca alongside her husband during his first official visit to Saudi Arabia.